The Carrick

This excellent fabric is made from 50% cotton and 50% linen. It looks great in any environment, is hardwearing, and will last for years. It also has the advantage of being fantastic value. Most importantly it’s a very beautiful fabric that has real understated style. Available in bisuit or herringbone.

We chose this fabric for a very simple reason: it’s one of the most beautiful upholstery fabrics that money can buy. The fabric has a wonderful soft feel, and is genuinely luxurious.

When sold on the high street this fabric commands a price of £32 per metre (and you usually need 16 metres of fabric for a three seat sofa) - which will give you some idea of how reasonable our prices are.

They may not be they most fashionable nation on earth, but they do make the finest linen. We are seriously proud to sell this linen, it is made and finished to the very highest standard possible, and we can testify to that having traipsed around a large number of linen mills. The colours are beautifully subtle, the fabric soft and elegant, and it also machine washable - top linen!

We found this fabric in a Belgian mill, and knew straight off that it had made the cut onto the sofa.com list. It is sold only in one other place in the UK and there sells for over £100 per metre; ridiculous obviously, but neverthelss give a good idea of how highly they prize the fabric. It has texture, weight, softness and subtlety, and really is a fine fabric with which to cover your sofa.

At Sofa.com we have only one style of leather, officially it's called "semi-aniline full grain leather" which simply means it's a real pleasure to live with. It's supple, beautiful and hardwearing - which is the whole point of leather. No, our leather sofas don't cost £500, but then again our leather isn't course, it doesn't stiffen up and crack and it doesn't leave nasty dye all over your clothes.